Iran indigenizes technologies for repairing Boeing

A senior official at Iran's Aviation Organization announced that the country has developed a home-grown technology to conduct the repair and maintenance operations of all choppers, light planes and wide-body airliners, including Boeing and Airbus passenger planes.Speaking to FNA, Director-General of the Iranian Aviation Organization's Office for Engineering and Flight Capability Mostafa Haqiqatjou said that the repairing process of different types of Airbus, Boeing and Foker passenger planes are currently underway inside the country. He added that the organization has taken the necessary measures to transfer and indigenize repair and maintenance technologies for different types of aircraft. "Right now, the detailed checking procedures of Airbus 310, 320 as well as the repair and maintenance of Airbus 300-600 are being conducted inside the country," Haqiqatjou noted, adding that Iran is also repairing and maintaining Foker 100. "Over 95% of the repair and maintenance of our light planes and choppers are also being done inside the country," he noted. Spokesman of Iran's Aviation Organization Reza Jafarzadeh had informed in September 2009 that Iran had developed the capability to fix Boeing 747 passenger planes thanks to the sanctions imposed by the US on Iran's air industries. "Imposing sanctions on the air industry (of Iran) by the US has made the Iranian experts acquire the knowledge and know-how for repairing Boeing 747 airplanes," he told FNA. In reaction to the US sanctions, Iran's experts, both in the private and governmental sectors, have gained desirable success in doing the repair and maintenance operations and procedures of all giant planes and even in overhauling Boeing 747 airplanes inside the country, he added.